Andrei Alexandrescu:
> byte c = a | b;
> Say you already know min_a, max_a, min_b, and max_b. How do you compute 
> min_c and max_c? I thought of it for a bit and it seems quite tricky.

This is Interval arithmetic. If you are able to find a book about it... (or a 
library for some programming language that implements it).

Bye,
bearophile

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